So Meat Pao and I went to the venue at around 5pm to get the goods and also have dinner before the concert. There were actually no one getting the goods while we were there. I guess they actually got it when the booth first opened at 12pm. To our disappointment, there weren't any banners or photo ops for us to take photos. The set up was rather small scale altogether. Whatever that Karen and her sister had posted on their respective Twitter accounts were it. There were nothing more. I guess that was the only disappointment to the overall experience.
Anyway, I bought one of the button badges, the brochure and also the light stick. I also renewed my Koda Gumi membership and they gave me some bonus items too. 4 of the latest Koda Gumi magazines and a sticker.
Not pictured: 15th anniversary sticker
Fast forward to queueing to enter. My friends and I had tickets number 16 - 18. So we were the first few to enter the theatre. Some fans actually ran for their standing area. We kinda did too. But it's great because we managed to stand in the first row!! We were SO near to the stage! It's literally just 2 metres away and the view was AMAZING. We entered 30 minutes before the show started so it wasn't really a long wait.
They were playing some urban tracks and they were great. All of a sudden, the lights were switched off. Not even dimmed. It took us by surprise for a bit. But that's also when the screams started.
01. Introduction ~WALK OF MY LIFE~
The dancers entered and the crowd got really hyped! I recognized the outfit though. I think it's from the opening segment of TRICK tour?
02. POP DIVA
In the intro, that's when Kuu entered from the back of the stage, below the screen. Outfit was the giant fur coat and she opened it up to reveal the bikini mid song. Jesus, her legs are out of this world. The house went crazy pretty much. The song can actually be pretty annoying when you listen to it but it's so fun live! Especially the chorus where we were all just screaming along.
03. Mercedes
I didn't think much of it. I enjoyed it though. She took out the fur coat in the end and threw it off stage.
04. House Party
So. Much. Fun! We were all screaming along to the chorus and of course, THE ROOF, THE ROOF, THE ROOF IS ON FIRE! The choreography was great too! The screen showed Kuu singing along to the song. Everything looked very pop art and colorful.
05. Poppin' love cocktail
Your usual towel spinning shebang. I didn't buy the towel so I spun my light stick instead. Really fun too! That's when she started walking to the left and right of the stage. SHE WAS SO CLOSE!!
06. IS THIS TRAP?
This was one of the performances that I was looking forward to the most. It's such a banger tbh! We were all jumping during the ohhhh! part. My only gripe is that they cut out the second verse and chorus.
-Interlude video-
Pretty cool. Basically she showed her live history that were recorded on DVD. It ended with a little clip of WALK OF MY LIFE from the latest arena tour in Japan. It looked really beautifully filmed! I guess it was also sort of a preview of what outfit was next.
07. Ai no Uta
She walked onto the stage in the green dress. Beautiful performance, she walked around the stage during this. I guess I'm one of the few Kuu fans that actually love this song to bits so to see this performed live was great.
08. Sometimes Dreams Come True
Got her mic stand from backstage and dragged it to the center of the stage. Pretty damn badass. It was great because english lyrics of the song was being shown on the screen. Honestly, even for the WOML arena tour, I was expecting her to turn it into some sort of a fun or cutesy performance. But it was pretty badass. Like a rock performance. Just her standing behind the mic stand and singing. I loved it.
09. WALK OF MY LIFE
No piano. Boo. She sounded alright. Again, english lyrics on the screen. Really touching tbh. At some points it sounded like 'so begins the
wook of my life' though lol.
-Invitation-
One of her new male dancers came on stage, and the screen showed that a lucky audience member had the chance to go up on stage to choose a song to be performed. So he was just walking around stage with the invitation letter and teasing the audience to get them all hyped up.
He ended up getting a girl in the middle of the crowd named to go up on stage. When he went down to get the girl, Kuu came in in a pretty sparkly dress, like the one in the WOML tour.
When both the girl and Kuu sat down on the couch, Kuu asked the girl for her name, to which she said that her name was Natsumi. She got the audience to clap for her and then realised that the name was Japanese. She asked if she was actually Japanese but Natsumi then said that that was actually her cosplay name.
Natsumi chose Suki de, Suki de, Suki de. And so, the performance starts.
10. Suki de, Suki de, Suki de. (Fan's request)
It's pretty cool because the screen showed 'To natsumi, Suki de, Suki de, Suki de.' And the Japanese lyrics started showing. She sounded alright, kinda strained at some parts. But omg, there was so much interaction with Natsumi! Kuu leaned on her shoulder, held her hand, patted her back. I was so envious.
11. Someday
Kuu sent Natsumi off and she started singing the first line of Someday. Everyone knew to sing along! Pretty sweet performance.
12. Dance In The Rain
Kuu stood there in the dress and sang. No tissue dance, but it's fine. Again, sounded pretty strained. We all sang along during the oh~ part before the chorus.
-Interlude video-
Album history video. They showed the one PV clip that were from each studio/cover album. It ended with SUMMER of LOVE, showing the clips from EX TAPE and HURRICANE.
13. HURRICANE
She came out with a leather bra top with shorts and what seemed like the shawl from the dance section of Premium Night ~Love & Songs~ and it covered the shorts she was wearing. I think she changed her make up too! Heavier eyeshadow with red lipstick. Omg the song is such a bop. It's a great dance track. I loved it. The PV seemed pretty boring though. But the choreography was on fire.
14. Like It
Pretty standard Like It performance. I was dancing and jamming to it pretty much.
15. real Emotion
I guess those who didn't look up the setlist beforehand were pleasantly surprised. It was really nice because she got everyone to sing along to the chorus and we all did!
16. Dance part (Interlude ~Dance~)
It was basically a dancers introduction section. Omg Kuu's new male dancers are so cute. Heh.
17. TABOO
She came out with a change of top and removed the shawl. It was similar to the KXVK long T-shirt. Great performance. Cut short though. No second verse and chorus again.
18. BE MY BABY ~ LOADED
Another performance I was looking forward to. They didn't cut out much from both songs. And I thoroughly enjoyed them both!! It's so fun to dance along to BE MY BABY and sing along to LOADED!
19. LIFE so GOOD!!
Another towel spinning song. Really fun but she did sound rather tired. No confetti though! I was expecting it.
-Encore-
So the screen before the show started showed up again. Everyone was shouting for an encore. I think some Japanese fans wanted everyone to sing for Kuu but it didn't really happen at the beginning so we shouted encore. We ended up singing TAKE BACK though!
EN1. Medley (Cutie Honey / Lady Go! / WIND / I'll be there / Butterfly)
They didn't cut that much from the songs actually! I was expecting her to just sing the choruses for each but most of them had a verse and their respective bridges too! Cutie Honey was fun! Okay, so here's the thing with Lady Go!. She has this dance during the chorus where we waved our hand and then reached out and wiggle out fingers. On one of the choruses when she stood in the middle of the stage, she turned into my general direction and so I tried to get her attention. And guess what, she saw me! So we actually did the dance together! I was so excited!! Everything else was great.
EN2. LALALALALA
It was alright. Singing along to the lalalalalas. She did sound a little strained though. That's a pattern I've noticed in this concert.
-Talk-
So she said hi to Singapore and also to her Japanese fans that came to Singapore for the show. She started talking about how the concept of the show and her 15th anniversary tied in with WALK OF MY LIFE. And basically told us all that it's okay to chase our dreams and ignore what the naysayers say. A translation of the message was scrolling through the back. And yes, someone's phone rang in the middle of Kuu's speech and she was like EH?! Mimicked picking up a phone and said Hello? The guy shouted sorry and Kuu said it's okay! It was a really cute moment.
EN3. walk
As usual, she ended the concert with walk. She started to choke up and cry a bit in the middle of the song. Left the stage after saying thanks.
A clip played at the end. I'm assuming it's from the WOML tour. She's walking through the streets of her 15th anniversary city - buildings with billboards of her past covers and videos - and walking towards a light. While she was walking she, there were some words at the bottom, basically it's the gist of the tiny speech she made before walk. After that it faded to black and WALK OF MY LIFE came up on the screen. Then the MY got replaced by YOUR so it became WALK OF YOUR LIFE.
After walk, everyone shouted for her to come back. And so she did, she thanked everyone again and the dancers came out and they took a final bow. This is what the screen showed after the show ended:
